Vyshnav Ramesh wrote:Guyz, kindly help me in placing scanner. How does it work?

Next to Turrets? (Cf your former post)Place it at around 4-7 nodes away from the net connection because as you know the scanner has a range of 3 nodes, so it's useful to prevent from having many stealth attacks. Unless you have it really well upgraded, it won't be that effective but it's still a bonus!Apart from that, idk..

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Search on the forums where Stealth is explained (in various posts), but quickly the Scanner allows you to increase the Visibility bar. So when you do the Stealth attack, you can see a bar (bottom of your screen) and you will see it rising. That's the Visibility bar. For example, when you use an Access hack, it has a Visibility of 150/s (since the Access has a deployment time of 1 sec ->). That means the bar will fill up with 150 when you use the Access hack. It goes on with the other Stealth hacks.Now come back to the Scanner. It helps defending your network against Stealth attacks. For that, it increases by a certain percentage (starts at 120%) the amount of Visibility of whatever Stealth hack you use. If I go back to my example, as long as the hacker is in range of the Scanner (3 nodes away, you can see that when you click on the Scanner, it's the pink connections) and if he uses an Access, his Visibility bar won't raise by only 150 but by 150*1,2 = 180. It may not be big, but it adds up and at mid level, when you do some Stealth hack, you get quickly close to the end of your Visibility bar (3600). So the placement of the Scanner plays a big role.

Got it?

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